Ti.Geolocation.forwardGeocoder(mySearchQuery, function(e) {
    if (e.error) {
        // throw error, show alert, etc.
    } else {
        // success!
    }
});

7 Answers

• I was just about to file a ticket concerning this issue and had yesterday qiuckly thrown together a few lines which would always cause a crash but all of a sudden I'm getting lat:0/lng:0, which is acceptable, I guess.WTF? I didn't update or the SDK or anything else for that matter?

• The crash happens if I give address like '12' and the behaviour is consistent.

• try{
    Ti.Geolocation.forwardGeocoder(mySearchQuery, function(e) {
          // success! 
    });
  }catch(err){
    // throw error, show alert, etc.
  }
  

  See if that works.

• Ti.Geolocation.forwardGeocoder(location, function(e){
      if (e.error) {
          Ti.UI.createAlertDialog({
              title:'Error', 
              message:'Could not find location - please try again.'
          }).show();
          return;
      }
      //Do Something with lat/lng here
  }
  

• I have the same issue, trying to forward geocode a nonsense address crashes the app. I reviewed Florian's test case and geocoding "kakakakakakakakakkakakakakakaka" doesn't crash the app, but geocoding something like "cxzcczxczxczxcxzccscxxczcz" does crash it :(

  Very strange, neither of the solutions posted here work for me, I just can't catch the error. Anyone have any ideas on this?

• Please see this ticket for details on how we are handling this: TIMOB-4880

  In the meantime, you can do the forward geocoding yourself very easily, something like this:

  xhr = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient();
  var query = 'Pittsburgh PA 15202'; // or whatever you want to forward geocode
  xhr.open('GET', 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/geo?output=json&q=' + query);
  xhr.onload = function() {
      var json = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
      Ti.API.info(json);
  };
  xhr.send();
  

• I know this thread is from 2 years ago, but I just had to do this task and wanted to post some updated code that works:

  function getCoordinates(address, callback) {
  
          var xhr = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient();
          var url = 'http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?sensor=false&address=' + address;
          xhr.open('GET', url);
          xhr.onload = function() {
              var result = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
              var location = result.results[0].geometry.location;
              //Ti.API.info(location.lat);
              //Ti.API.info(location.lng);
              callback(location);
          };
          xhr.send();
  
      }